The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

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Company, has purchased the Bay anc Coast
Telegraph line, belonging to the Sou tn Pa
cific Coast Railroad Company, which runs
from San Francisco to Santa Cruz The
price was not mentioned.
THE carpet weavers in Higgins great
factory, New York City, returned to work
on the 9th. having gained complete vic
| tory.
J The defeat of Goschen in Liverpool put
the Salisbury Government in considerable
difficulty.
THE French have evacuated Tamatave
The construction Of the Madagascar tele-
| graph line from Tamatave to Antanarivo,
the capital. is nearly completed.
THE strike of the silk ribbon weavers of
New York ended in the success of the err
! ployes.
| B. LAWRENCE, wholesale optician o.
| Montreal, has suspended payment with $50,
OO0 liabilities.
! FIRE in New York City recently destroyed
a six-story building on Mulberry street
causing loss of $4,000.
THE cable of the French Company be
tween England and France broke recently
at some point between St Pierre and Brest
THE great Havemeyer sugar refinery
Brooklyn. n. Y, has been closed down be
cause of lack of coal, owing to the strike.
APAssENGER tram on the Burlington road
ran over sleigh load Of people mile south
of Nelson, Wis. Alexander Dream, engi-
neer on steamboat, was killed and William
Mailer, J. F. Schenberger and James Kane
were injured, but not fatally.
THE ice in the Susquehanna, north of
Port Deposit, Nd, began breaking up on
the 9th and, plling up, forced the water
back upon the town in frightful manner.
In thirty minutes the waters had attained
a depth Of from five to six feet in the main
street, causing serious misgivings as to the
result.
FROM twenty to forty thousand long
shoremen, coal handlers, etc, went on
strike in New York on the 9th Trans
atlantic steamships were delayed in conse-
quence.
A SENSATION has been caused in Paris by
General Boulanger's sudden refusal to
grant an audience to any foreign journalist.
FRIENDS of Archbishop Corrigan say he
has received many threats of violence since
the McGlynn trouble arose. The other day
a package was delivered at the Arch
bishops door. The servants suspected
dynamite and handled it carefully. 1t was
found to contain bonbons, which 1t was
thought were poisoned.
THE schooner Carthage sailed from Glou-
cester, Mass, December l, and since that
time nothing has been heard from her. Her
owner has given her up as lost. She was
commanded by Captain Andrew Nelson and
had crew of ten men.
AN earthquake was reported at fremont
and North Bend, Neb., ON the 9th.
THE body found in a trunk recently in
Baltimore is thought to have been that of
August Baltz The police arrested Edward
Younger in New York, charging him with
the murder
IN the budget for the city of Berlin 'S7-SS |
the revenue and expenditures balance at
60, 131, 291 marks.
ORTIZ H. STEIN, the notorious murderer |
and embezzler, formerly of Kansas City, |
No, recently killed Howard Stone, tele- |
graph operator at Price Station, Utah.
AN Orsini bomb was thrown near the |
town hall in Altoona, Germany, the other |
evening, but exploded too soon and did no |
harm. Fragments of the bomb were ana
lyzed. 1t was found that it had not been |
by an expert. Several |
socialists were arrested on suspicion of /
being concerned, but were released after |
short detention.
THE American Opera Company was COM
PEELED to pay $3.50 unpaid salaries by the city |
court at New York
THE net surplus of Australian wheat for
export is 7,250000 bushels.
CHIEF POsT-OFFICE INSPECTOR WEST was
on the 2Sth that five Of the men
engaged in the robbery Of the railroad train
at Gordon, Tex, had been arrested and the
prospect was that the other three would be
soon captured.
THE Consul General of the United States
at Shanghai reports that $3.50 has been
by Chinese in that city for the
Charleston earthquake sufferers.
KNIGHTS of Labor have entered suit at
Baltimore against L. Ruth & Son for viola
ton of contract.
THE Knights of Labor struck in Sell,
Schwab d Co.'S shop at Chicago recently
because thirteen girls were not discharged.
OVER 5000 pieces of heavy and medium
worsted and wooden cloths were
sold in New York the other day at auction
much below the cost of manufacture.
FIRE destroyed II. Wetter & Co.'S. tin
ware mandatory at Memphis, Tenn, re-
emily. Loss, 5000 Fire also DESTROYED
| block of buildings in San Francisco
Loss, $4,000.
SENATORS EvARTs, Teller, Spooner, Pugh
md Eustis have been appointed as the com.
nittee to investigate the alleged Texas out
ages.